The Portland daily press., 1887-09-15
eASE BALL,
New England League
GAME TODAY.

GAME TODAY.
The Lowells will play at the Portland
grounds again this afternoon and another
hard fought battle Is expected. While the
winning of today's game will not secure the
pennant to either club it will help out amaz-
ingly and especially so IL the Portlands
should win it. Game will be called at 3
o'clock.
PoRrLANDs, s; LowELLs, 3.
Dickerson's home run came in at the right
time yesterday and won the game for the
champions. Three runs came in on account
of it and it gave the Portlands such a lead
that the visitors could not overcome 1t. 1t
was very exciting game. 1t was just such
one as might have been expected with
McGunnigle and Cudworth both on the field,
and they gave an exhibition of kicking such
as no two other men on the diamond can
give. They kicked, begged, threatened,
whined and worked every point possible,
but to no purpose. Umpire Callahan either
could not, or would not stop them and they
kept up their chatter throughout the whole
game. Shaw pitched for Portland and his
drop was too much for the Lowells. In only
one inning did they get more than one hit
and in four they didn't get any. Burke,
who occupied the box for the visitors, was
also very effective, the Portlands making
only five safe hits. But he was hit harder
more for Portland than Lowell. The Port
lands played sharp fielding game. and out
side OF the short stops position the visitors
also did good work.
The game started with the Lowells at the
bat. Dick Burns got his base on balls and
worth's put out to DAWN. and Hartnett and
Duffy struck out. In the Portland's half
Andrus and Diekerson went out on flies and
Hatfield got his base on balls. He stole sec
ond and scored on Dutfey's hit. Duffey went
to second on the attempt to put Hatfield out
score on Davin's hit was thrown out at
home by Cudworth. 1t was a very close de-
cision and many thought he was safe. In
the second inaing the Lowells opened in
savagely on Shaw. Three pop flies all
dropped out of the reach Of felders, and
aided by passed ball, Kennedy scored. No
one was out and McGunnigle and Toffling
were on second and third. Murphy hit to
Schoeneck who threw McGunnigle out at
the home plate, and burke hit to Shaw who
threw out Toffiing. ID. Burns then hit a
liner to Lufbery and the side was out, and
although five men reached first safely only
one run was scored.
Galligan opened the last half of the second
with long fly that almost hit the centre
field fence. He got two bases on it, took
third on Lufbery's put out and scored on an
error by Kennedy. With two men out
Shaw got his base on balls and Andrus hit
to Kennedy, who instead Of throwing out
Shaw at second, a thing he could easily have
done, threw wild to first and both men were
safe. Dickerson then hit for home run
over the right field fence, making four runs
for the inning. These proved to be the last
runs for the game for the Portlands as only
one hit was made after that by them and
not one Of them got beyond first base. The
Lowells, however, scored once after that
and came near it once or twice besides. In
the sixth Duffey got round TO third but was
left there In the seventh Murphy got his
base on balls, went round to third on steal
and wild throw by Dutfey and scored on ID.
Burns hit. In the eighth Cudworth got his
base on balls and stole second, but was
thrown out at third.
About 1900 people witnessed the game and
enjoyed it. The only disagreeable feature